“It’s easy to get overwhelmed and paralyzed and not do anything, but if you can, connect and start to take action. You will feel better if you feel like you are part of the solution.”

“Gamification has this purpose of increasing motivation and engagement to influence or change behavior with an aim of achieving a particular outcome you have in mind.”

"Elected office is just like any other social work job. I think sometimes there’s this fear you have to have a law degree or be a businessperson — completely not the case."

“Mind-altering, psychoactive compounds and plants have been used by humans for thousands and thousands of years. There are Indigenous traditions that have kept that alive over the centuries and still to this day.”

“There are social workers … that declare that spirituality is a vital part of human development. My question there is, I cannot think of, off the top of my head, any other component of human behavior and human development that we accept simply by declaration.”

"We can certainly talk about having folks at the table, but once they're at the table, are we making sure that their voices are heard? Are we making sure that we hear where they're coming from?"

“It’s critically important for us as a profession to understand how computer science and folks who are doing AI in health and mental health are thinking about the problems that we’re thinking of. Those engineers are 100% coming for you.”

"I can live in the world with an environmental consciousness of how to behave. I can bring that into my clinical practice. I can have a consciousness about how to be in the world, and I can bring that to my sessions with my clients, because all of my clients will be impacted by environmental issues.”

“When you practice that external skill, it actually creates a different experience inside of you. So one of the ways I think you can become more empathic as a therapist is to practice reflective listening, because doing that will actually expand that inner curiosity that you have."

“One thing we haven’t even talked about is how we’re preparing all students to go out there and work and practice. All of our students, regardless of where they work or whether they ever know it or not, will work with trans people, right? And so, what we’re doing in the classroom or modeling is how to do that.” – Meg Paceley